Marriage of convenience, but who will get the bash when it breaks up?

by Cameron Slater on April 20, 2014 at 9:00am

It is actually fascinating to watch Hone and Kim work so hard to convince everyone they are the answer to taking down National, and John Key with it. But we all know it will come to conflict at some point.

Rodney Hide muses

The intricate Hone Harawira and Kim Dotcom dance is proving every bit as exciting as the royal tour. What makes the Hone-Dotcom tie-up exciting is its incongruity. It’s the sheer implausibility of the marriage that commands attention.

The Mana Party represents Northland’s poor and dispossessed. And here’s Dotcom arriving at their conference with a cavalcade of late model European SUVs.

Dotcom drove up more like an African potentate than a suitor for the hearts and minds of Te Tai Tokerau.

Harawira believes “white mother[]****** have been raping our lands and ripping us off for centuries”. Dotcom is as white as white. The party that shouts the loudest about indigenous rights and Maori sovereignty is hooking up with a party led by a German self-styled “visionary”. Dotcom is not even a New Zealand European but a European European.

Harawira says he would be uncomfortable if one of his seven children dated a Pakeha. But here he is hopping into bed with one.

Just goes to show bonny boy Hone is for sale. When all is said and done, he’s quite happy to enter into an agreements with another white mofo and setting himself up to be ripped off again.

It’s like a woman going back into an abusive relationship. Hone doesn’t know how to be anything but a whipping boy. I doubt his mum is proud of him right now.

Dotcom has traversed the political spectrum. He started with John Banks. He famously donated to Banks’ mayoral campaign. And when Banks became a minister Dotcom attempted to lavish gifts upon him. Former Dotcom staffer Alex Mardikian has spoken of Banks resolutely rebuffing them.

Mardikian says he now believes Dotcom was attempting to stitch Banks up. “No one rides for free with Kim.”

Banks refused the gifts. When Dotcom was banged up in jail, Banks simply had his electorate staff check on him. That’s what would be done for any constituent who rang. The donations and proffered gifts bought no special favours, which is exactly as it should be.

Because he received no special treatment, I believe Dotcom set out to destroy Banks.

Since being disappointed by Banks, Dotcom has played pied piper, persuading a who’s who of political luminaries to make pilgrimages to his Coatesville mansion, often multiple times.

He has travelled across the political spectrum to settle upon the most unlikely of them all.

Hone and Dotcom are dating and look set to tie the knot. It is a marriage of convenience. Harawira is desperate for political oomph and momentum.

Dotcom is desperate to have a Minister of Justice block his extradition to the United States.

There’s no political principle at work. There’s only naked self-interest. And Mana must take care. The Banks’ experience shows “no one rides for free with Kim”.

Hone is playing with fire. It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion. A car crash with two national supremacists in it. Neither have a vision to improve New Zealander’s lives. Their only objective is to destroy something.

“I will destroy, anybody…”

Careful Hone. You’ll be of no use to Kim before you know it. And you can’t say you weren’t warned.

– NZ Herald

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As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.

They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.